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Column: Open Mike

Oklahoma City was recently named one of the most recession-proof places in the country. The state’s economy continues to do better than the nation as a whole. A prime factor in both trends is the presence of companies such as Devon Energy Corp.

Detractors have said the capital city is relatively recession-proof due to the number of government jobs. But it’s not a government agency that’s preparing to build what would be the largest and tallest office tower in Oklahoma. It’s Devon.

Chairman Larry Nichols said Wednesday that the previously announced plans for a new downtown office tower will be grander than originally thought. Instead of 37 stories, it will have 54.
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In reaction to removing the age-based drinking ban on college-age citizens, University of Iowa President Sally Mason says that will not solve the problem. Brilliant, then stop treating high-school graduates as something other than adults.

CELEBRATING NASH: The buzz last Saturday in the lobby of Dr. Laura Mehaffy’s Pinnacle Valley Animal Hospital in West Little Rock off Highway 10 was electric.

It was one of those first really hot days early in summer, or maybe late in the spring in these latitudes, when the overwhelming heat is still a novelty rather than a constant. In earlier years, I used to luxuriate in the first scorching day of the coming season. The return of the merciless Southern summer was kind of assuring, a reminder that the seasons were still in their place, that some things never change.

Have you followed the news reports about the Bush administration’s latest plan for turning America into a police state?

Any Democrat who imagines that Barack Obama’s got the presidential election locked up needs to watch the so-called Saddleback forum featuring him and John McCain online at cnn.com.

Political uncertainty in Pakistan, a nuclear power, is more unnerving than it is in most other places. To the east, across the disputed region of Kashmir, lies India, Pakistan's enemy since partition in 1947. To the west, across impenetrable mountain ranges, lies Afghanistan. Somewhere in these mountains, Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.

The auction-rate securities debacle holds a couple of lessons for small investors:

OXFORD, Miss. — Just around the corner, off the square, inside the door of a local favorite chicken restaurant is an autographed picture of new head football Coach Houston Nutt.

When U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder announced in July that wife Betsy Singleton, pastor of Little Rock’s Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, was pregnant with triplets, a collective gasp could be heard across Arkansas.